![]() Liam Howlett and his assorted helpers have now served up an even stunning slab of modern genius." He added, "You don't have to be in a club, helped by the strobe lights to appreciate the appeal as the drum roll cracks into place before giving way to the type of pounding beat that seems to have been the essential ingredient in the great singles of the year. Nick Varley from The Guardian wrote, " Firestarter was only softening us up. Larry Flick from Billboard stated that the song, "with its jittery, faux funk beat, caustic synths, and snarling vocals" gets stronger with repeated spins. ![]() Breathe thus became an iconic song for Serbia's urban youth. It was the first major international music act to play in Belgrade since the breakup of Yugoslavia, and came shortly after UN sanctions were partially lifted. And so, when it comes to why The Fat of the Land isn’t celebrated as a classic, maybe the answer is that The Prodigy simply never wanted to be part of anyone’s pantheon other than their own.The first ever performance of the song was held at a concert at the Pionir Hall in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, on 8 December 1995, 11 months prior to its release. And when the spotlight moved on, they were in no hurry to reclaim it (and had, if anything, added to their infamy with the 2002 single “Baby’s Got a Temper” and a chorus that “playfully” references date-rape drug Rohypnol). If the mainstream didn’t want The Prodigy, it appeared that the feeling was reciprocated. It was 2004: no room for The Prodigy among all of that new millennium positivity.” “I was talking to the head of Radio 1 at that time and he said they weren’t playing The Prodigy because they were too aggressive, too scary for the time. “It took Liam years to come with the follow-up, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned but the public didn’t take to it and the media pretty much ignored it,” says Martin James. ![]()
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